Sponsorship: Defining the Relationship

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Sponsorship is when someone influential in your organization advocates on your behalf to get you where you want to go. But the sponsor-protege relationship isn’t always clear-cut. We talk about what sponsors really do and what the protege’s role is. Guest: Rosalind Chow. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:29.0	I'm Amy Gallo. I'm Amy Gallow.
0:33.0	I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:34.5	And I'm Nicole Torres.
0:36.5	To get ahead at work, we need support from people besides our boss.
0:40.9	Sometimes that comes in the form of mentorship, where a person with more experience gives us advice or guidance on how we can improve.
0:48.0	But there is another kind of support that is equally, if not more important. Sponsorship, where someone with a lot of power in the company
0:56.4	advocates on our behalf. Sponsorship can be a lot less clear cut than mentorship though.
1:02.0	The relationship tends to start informally, the kind of
1:05.0	support a sponsor will give you isn't always defined, the people involved often hesitate
1:10.2	to name the relationship, and there is hardly ever any sort of commitment or
1:14.6	accountability. So how do you navigate this relationship especially when you know
1:19.1	how important it can be to your career.
1:22.5	This episode we're getting some clarity on sponsorship from both sides of it, the sponsor
1:27.2	and the prodigy.
1:28.2	I started getting interested in sponsorship because I wanted to know why I wasn't getting sponsored and other people were.
1:36.0	That's our guest expert Roslyn Chow.
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